😱 Whale Loses $20M on AI Agent Tokens

A big investor put $23M into AI agent tokens on Base. Exited today with $2.58M left - −89% total

Whales can bleed too 🗡

💶 Euro Stablecoins Are Quietly Exploding

Since the start of the year, euro stablecoin supply hit €425M. That’s +168% growth

Euro going on-chain without making noise 🎧

😱 Yearn Finance Gets Hacked Again

Yearn Finance has been hit for the second time this month with attackers stealing another 300K dollars. Just weeks earlier the protocol already lost 9M

It’s less DeFi and more Groundhog Day ✅

🇧🇹 Bhutan Plans a New City Powered by Bitcoin Reserves

Bhutan will use 10 000 BTC from its reserves to help build Gelephu Mindfulness City a special administrative zone focused on long term development

From spiritual capital to on-chain urban planning 👉

🔫 Binance Pulls In Record Capital

CryptoQuant data shows cumulative inflows to Binance hit a record 1.17T dollars up 31 percent year over year far ahead of competitors. Perpetual futures volume reached 24.6T across 49.6B trades while spot trading climbed to 6.82T with over 24B transactions

Like it or not this is where crypto liquidity keeps choosing to live 👍

😁 Plan B Says Bears Are Fighting a Losing Game

Bitcoin isn’t pumping because half the market is selling OGs 2021 trauma victims RSI watchers and cycle believers while the other half is buying fundamentals TradFi and banks. It’s a stalemate for now

Epic battle until the sellers run out of ammo 😭

🏦 Coinbase CEO Says Traditional Finance Is Broken

Brian Armstrong says the traditional financial system is fundamentally broken

Hard to argue when the fixes keep looking like band aids 😑

🤓 Markets Are Trading Blind

US government shutdown cut off fresh economic data since September. Inflation jobs growth - all delayed or incomplete

Real numbers land by late December. Until then, markets are guessing 🙂

👬 Hackers Threaten Pornhub Data Leak for BTC

ShinyHunters say they will leak premium user data unless paid in Bitcoin. They dropped samples and users confirmed it to Reuters. Pornhub linked the breach to a Mixpanel security incident

Privacy premium just got expensive 🔞

🎧 Gate closing the year like CT’s attention span never expired:

🔼Gate Ventures outlook - cautious markets, selective narratives, end-of-year positioning vibes
🔼SCOR Launchpool - 5.4M SCOR up for grabs, liquidity miners clock in
🔼Peak Trading Competition - $400K airdrop for those still clicking buy/sell
🔼BountyDrop x Junk.Fun - another airdrop side quest unlocked
🔼Kodiak (KDK) Launchpad Phase 5 - up to 200% APR, numbers doing the talking
🔼2025 Year Gala - top streamers and creators get their victory lap
🔼Crazy Wednesday #17 - trade 1 USDT, maybe win GT, Sony cameras, or 285% APR
🔼Gate US lists THQ & MAGMA - spot trading unlocked stateside
🔼Futures Points Airdrop #44 - ~$31 per user, faucet still flowing
🔼VOOI spot launch - fresh ticker, fresh overtrading
🔼Infrared (IR) Launchpool - 150K IR for the patient users
🔼Meme Go “Gold Finger” recruitment - smart money cosplay goes global

Gate ships features. So you can keep grinding 🥂

🎄 Crypto Twitter Is Decorating Trees Today

Holiday spirit, crypto edition 🙁

🤔 Tom Lee: BTC and ETH Already Hit the Bottom

BitMine CEO Tom Lee says Bitcoin and Ethereum are past the lows. The classic 4-year cycle is fading. 2025 theme is tokenization, with Ethereum becoming core financial infrastructure

Bottom in, next chapter loading 😮

🥃 Real Finance raised $29 million in an undisclosed round led by Nimbus Capital and Magnus Capital to support the development of an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain focused on integrating real-world financial assets into a digital environment

🕺 Gold Stablecoins Break $4B

Gold-backed stablecoins passed $4B market cap, up 3x since 2025. Tether’s XAUT leads with $2.2B about half the market. PAXG follows at $1.5B. Together they control nearly 90%

Old money going on-chain 🍷